King Solomon s Temple

Ezekiel is the great alchemical transcendentalist of the Bible. In the Book of Ezekiel is to be found a cryptogram revealing the place of the hidden treasure taken out of King Solomon s Temple at the time of the Jewish captivity in Babylon. Every line of the Book has some word in it showing, especially to those who read Hebrew, that Ezekiel belonged to the most... 

Although there were many older temples on Mount Zion, Jewish and Biblical scholars consider King Solomon s Temple the First Temple of Jemsalem. 

A perfect ashlar or square block of stone often represented the three dimensions of this divine triad. Similarly, the Holy of Holies was a perfect cube in King Solomon s Temple that symbolized the wholeness of God. 

Somewhat oddly, Moses commanded a renowned goldsmith and architect called Bezaleel to prepare the Bread of the Presence of God. Indeed, Bezaleel was the same goldsmith Moses had commissioned to create the Ark of the Covenant. Coincidently, the renowned architect of King Solomon s Temple, Hiram Abiff, was not an architect in Biblical texts. He was an expert artisan working in gold, brass and dyes. 

The Chapter of Clermont claimed to be the sole true descendant of the Knights Templar, fusing together the themes of chivalry, King Solomon s Temple and alchemy. It taught that the Knights Templar recovered dishes marked for alchemical purposes of the Royal Art from a hollow comer stone in the Temple of Jemsalem. The dishes were for the preparation of an alchemical Eucharist, which we looked at in Chapter... 

Moses renowned staff had an equally miraculous history. Seth took it from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Moses turned it into a serpent to overcome the magicians of the Pharaoh and used it to part the Red Sea. He also brought forth water from a rock at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. It then reputedly became a structural beam in King Solomon s Temple. 

In Chapter 3 we looked at the sacred treasures of King Solomon s Temple recorded in the Temple of the A1 Kamak, particularly the plunder from the Palestine campaign of Thutmose III. Detailed examination of these treasures shows the same elongated pyramidal or conical shapes under the items of gold. This, is, white bread or shewbread " This same shape is shown even earlier in the White Chapel at Kamak, where the twelfth dynasty Pharaoh Sesostris I presents the conical shewbread to Amun. "... 

In the next chapter, we look at one of the most intriguing aspects of alchemical studies, Jewish traditions that allude to what the Knights Templar really found under King Solomon s Temple. 

Home, Alexander 33 King Solomon s Temple in the Masonic Tradition Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, 1972... 

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